Experimental studies of the dynamics and parametric dependences of switching from total internal reflection to transmission and limiting effects
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 8 (7) , 1464-1470
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.8.001464
Abstract
We present experimental results concerning the process of switching from the total-internal-reflection to the transmission state at a glass–nematic-liquid-crystal interface. The results are in agreement with our detailed theory of the dynamics of interface switching [J. Opt. Soc. Am B. 6, 884 (1989)]. An optical limiting effect, caused by the transverse nonlinear phase shift that is associated with the Gaussian profile of the laser beam, is also observed.Keywords
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